Succotash Shut-In

Succotash Epi135: Clippin' AND Chattin'

Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, was launched in 2011 with the idea of promoting comedy soundcasts in what was then a marketplace still trying to find its way. By featuring short clips of shows being produced by funny folks both known and unknown, we like to feel that we maybe had a little tiny, eeny weeny, itsy bitsy bit to do with helping to ignite the torch of soundcasts across the globe! (But then we've always had a rather high opinion of ourselves...)

Original show host and executive producer Marc Hershon, along with booth announcer Bill Heywatt, engineer/producer Joe Paulino, associate producer Tyson Saner, musical director Scott Carvey, and booth assistant Kenny Durgis have kept the flame alive o'er these many years. In 2018, Hershon abandoned the host chair and anointed Saner to the position, with nary a notice from the legions of listeners. Typical.

Yes, it’s me.
Marc Hershon, your host and drought-resistant shrub for Epi135 of
Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast. And this is
definitely a succotash of an episode. We’ve got snippets from a
bunch of comedy podcasts. And we’ve got a couple of interviews. So
we’re going to make this a Succotash Clips n’ Chats show.
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I’ve got a
brief chat via the new SpareMin app with Chris
Mancini, co-host of the Comedy Film Nerds podcast
and co-organizer of the Los Angeles Podcast Festival. We talk a
little bit about his Earbuds podcast-oriented documentary, his
graphic novel that he just successfully Kickstarted into existence,
and Chris and I talk about my upcoming official duties in this year’s
5th edition of the LA Podfest.

Chris
Mancini
Ned Kenney

I have a
longer chat with Ned Kenney, the brains behind
Laughable, a new app that is specifically for and
about comedy podcasts. Finding them, listening to them, and
learning more about the people behind them. I’ve kind of fallen in
love with this app and how easy it is to find and download comedy
podcasts, which is my stock in trade. Ned talks about why he
came up with the idea and what he’s been through to get the thing
up and launched.

Podcastwise,
on this installment of Succotash, we’ve got clips from
Bad Cop, Bad Cop; Horribly Awkward,
Irresponsible Mentors, The Naked Porch Podcast,
and a long-delayed visit to the Podcast Graveyard where we dig up a
show that hasn’t been around for about a year. (Thanks to our
Associate Producer Tyson Saner for most of the
clips for this week's episode!)

In addition,
we’ve got a double dose of our Burst O’ Durst segment with
political comedian and social commentator Will
Durst, a new song and a Succotash tribute from
our a capella singing friend Abner Serd, and a dip
into the Tweetsack.

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THE
SHOWS

Bad
Cop, Bad CopThe first
clip for this episode is from Bad Cop, Bad Cop, a show
I’ve not heard of before — which is becoming the rule rather than
the exception it seems, there are SO many comedy podcasts out there
— and was uploaded directly to us by a listener. An unidentified
listener. He or she says about Bad Cop, Bad Cop: “One of
my favorite shows. It’s hard to pin down a small segment of this
show but here it is. These two guys have an infectious giggle and
have me PMSL each week.” (I suspect the listener is British, as
PMSL stands for “piss myself laughing”, which is the English
version of ROFL – Rolling On The Floor Laughing.) The co-hosts of
the show are named Jerry and Dave
— no last names — who, according to the About blurb on their
homesite, are “two guys with pretty bad attitudes."

Horribly
AwkwardNormally I
have more information about the podcasts that we get the clips
from, but sometimes the podcasters are pretty stingy with putting
the facts out on their homesites. Take Horribly Awkward,
for instance. It took several links to find out that the name of
the host is Shaun Fuller. And I didn’t get the
last name until I hopped onto the Laughable app and found that he
was a guest on the Three Is Comedy podcast. Here’s his
description of Horribly Awkward as it appears on Stitcher:
“This is my horribly awkward, guest-driven, improvised, comedy and
fun filled podcast. Take a ride with me on this journey with a new
guest every week!” Tyson pulled this clip from Shaun’s Epi42 when
his guests included Brink and
Jesus, the co-hosts of the Horrible
Gamerz podcast, Brink’s wife Becca, and
Rob from Random Ramblings with Rob. I
don’t want to say that parts of Podcastland are getting a little
incestuous but…ewww.

The Naked Porch
PodcastI could have sworn we featured The
Naked Porch podcast before but I’ve just been to the Succotash
Archives and I just find mentions I made of the show, not any clips
at all. So it’s high time, thanks to Tyson, that we rectify that
situation. This podcast falls into the “Sittin’ Around And Chewing
The Fat” category of podcasts and these three —Chris,
Ray, and Danielle — are
clearly having a great time without anyone else’s
help.

The
Irresponsible MentorsTyson clipped
this next entry from The Irresponsible Mentors podcast – a
title I love - but he didn‘t include a lot of intel. And I have to
say, after tracking the hosts back through a few sites, there’s not
much out there. Here’s what we know: This is from a “minisode” at
the end of May called “Comeback Warriors & Unarmed Gorilla
Get’s Shot”. By their cartoon logo, one host is Chip
T, the other is SQ BZ. Guess you're meant
to discover the rest for yourself.

Tall
Tales & Shaggy DogsRather than
my usual wrapup, I wanted to feature a recent episode of Abner
Serd’s shortform podcast, Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs. In
an episode entitled, "Faraway places (or, What's it like in Lower
Shmorgestan?)". which is a story rather than a song, he ends up
giving my wrap-up line himself.

Podcast
GraveyardThere are SO many podcasts floating
around out that, unless you listen to particular ones all the time,
you might not even notice when one goes off the radar. Such is the
case with The
Tobolosky Files. I really enjoyed this show, featuring
actor Stephen Tobolosky who, with the help of
critic and filmmaker David Chen, would tell
stories from his interesting life and unique position of being one
of the most legendary modern-day character actors working in film
and television. Stephen’s podcast went dark about a year ago,with
Epi71 dropping on August 13th, 2015. Here’s a clip from that
episode, which was entitled, “If I Know Now What I Knew
Then”

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